7 Creative Things You Can Do With Fairy Lights

Planning a party but are unsure about the venue as you think your house is too dull or boring? Well all you have to do is add sparkle to your home with some fairy lights and turn on the music. It’s a brilliant way to transform any place into a magical world. And not just parties and festivals, with a little imagination fairy lights are a great way to add a fairytale touch to our otherwise boring lives and your kids will be delighted to have those strings of tiny twinkling lights in their rooms. We’re sharing some brilliant ways in which these lights can be used to decorate your living space.

Fairy Light Chandelier

Who doesn’t want a cleverly designed lighting fixture in the living room? And why not when you can make one in a matter of few minutes. You will need a wire, one inch wide fancy lace, a piece of thread to hang the chandelier and a string of single coloured fairy lights. Take the piece of wire and bend it to make a large ring. Place the lace lengthwise along the rim of ring and sew it along the wire till all of it is covered with lace. Tie threads of equal lengths at equal distance on the lace ring. Tie them together above the centre of the ring. Now cover the ring with the fairy lights leaving some parts of the string hanging loose to make the chandelier look more beautiful. Hang this lighted chandelier in your living room.

Lighted Vanity Mirror

Add a new dimension to your vanity mirror by adorning its frame with a string of fairy lights. With this idea you won’t need to make separate lighting arrangements for your vanity room as the light will be sufficient for you to put on your eyeliner correctly. To add more charm you can make tiny origami paper balls or lanterns and cover each fairy light with these to make them look more attractive. It will definitely make any old mirror stand out completely.

Curtain Backdrops

We love those lighted backdrops created by event organizers in marriages and parties, don’t we! So why not bring them home to brighten up our lives. Installing lighted curtain back drops in your living room or children’s room is a smart way to make the place look more inviting. You just need to select an empty wall in your house and get a few essentials ready like 20 to 3o cord hooks, large curtains in any colour, curtain rods, a few strings of fairy lights and an extension wire. Now attach the cable hooks on the wall at various places. Hang fairy lights on these hooks while making patterns like trees, stars, hearts with the lights. Cover these lighted patterns with curtains. Turn on the fairy lights and see your room glow with magic.

Light Up Display Items

Fairy lights come handy to light up display items like mini huts, birds nests, mini trees, family photos and even your kid’s tent house. It’s a great way to make all those tiny little art objects draw the attention of the guests coming to your house. You can even create a photo dsplay wall art usng string lights. Collect all your treasured family photos and hang them on the wall in whatever pattern you want. Wrap the photo frames with fairy lights to make them look more appealing.

Around The Dining Table

You can spruce up your dining area by surrounding the table and chairs with fairy lights. Another easy way to light up the dining table is to roll up the string to make a ball out of it and hang this ball over the dining table as lanterns. Or you can decorate the main wall in your dining room with fairy lights. You can even create a curtain of fairy lights to separate your dining area from your living room.

Create A Dreamy Night Sky

Children love the night sky! So gift them one in their own bedrooms. Turn the ceiling of their room into a night sky by installing tiny fairy lights in the shape of moon and stars. with a little more effort you can even create the whole galaxy on their ceiling by making a few additions like a ball of blue fairy lights to depict planet earth, a ball of orange fairy lights to depict mars and the list is endless.

Flame-Free Fire Pit

Every once in a while we all love to cozy up to a warm bonfire with our family and friends. What if it’s still summer season and you’re craving to have a bonfire night with your friends? Fairy lights come to the rescue! Yes you heard it right as you can easily create a fake bonfire from fairy lights. Twist together a couple of orange fairy light strings and place them in between logs of wood placed in the fire pit.